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old habits die screaming

On a list of things Annabeth Chase wanted to do, sharing a hotel room with her ex-boyfriend of seven months was at the very bottom. Especially when the entire reason she'd ended things with him had been a complete and total lie, and she was still very much not over him. But for her best friend's destination wedding, she would be doing exactly that.

She just had to get through four nights of close quarters with her extremely hot ex that she was in love with, who couldn't keep his eyes to himself if his life depended on it, all while the voices in her head (and her best friends) whispered to her that they should've never broken up in the first place. How hard could it be?

chapter three: the room

“Did you need a towel?” Percy asked as he returned to the room, holding two white bundles in his arm. She turned towards him and was almost shocked to see bare skin. Of course he was shirtless, they were going to the pool.

“Yeah,” she said, forcing her eyes away from his chest. She took the towel. “Thank you.”

“Sure,” he nodded. Annabeth folded the towel and pushed it into her tote before pulling it up on her shoulder. Turning towards the door, she froze when she realized he was studying her.

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chapter ten: the pregame

There was one cup left on the table in front of Thalia and Silena. Piper kissed the pink ping pong ball and handed it to her fiancée. “Make this or the wedding’s off.”

Reyna’s gaze locked onto the cup. She was too glasses of sangria in, and clearly on a mission to make it to that wedding tomorrow. The ball flew through the air in a perfect arc and slammed into the cup without touching anything. Piper shrieked, throwing her arms up and around Reyna.

“Oh, you wanna marry me bad, huh?” she teased, beaming from ear to ear.

Reyna’s dark eyes were swimming with affection but she shrugged. “I just didn’t wanna lose. Marrying you is a cool bonus, I guess.”

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chapter twelve: the wedding

“Cute jammies,” he commented, tilting his head. Piper had given them pink, satin pajama sets, mainly because the tops buttoned all the way up, which was a necessity when getting your hair done. Their names were embroidered across the back and the bottoms were shorts with a scalloped hem. Reyna and Thalia had similar ones but theirs were a charcoal gray color. 

“We’re going to wear them to all of our future sleepovers. They’ll look super cute when we have pillow fights and talk about our boy problems,” Annabeth said before taking a bite of her food, being very careful not to move her head. 

“Mm, you have a lot of those?” he asked, eyes dancing. He was obviously referring to the boy problems part of her sentence, but she feigned innocence.

“Pillow fights? Oh, all the time.”

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chapter fourteen: the wedding night

There was a single moment where Annabeth contemplated everything. She could wait, she could play this as safe as possible and hold everything in until there was minimal risk in the event of unfortunate repercussions. But God, it might kill her. Maybe she should’ve had one more drink to give her a little courage.

“Percy.” His name stumbled out of her mouth before she could stop it. 

“Hm?” he hummed, setting some clothes off to the side, oblivious to her internal meltdown.

There was a beat of silence, and finally she got the words out. “I lied to you.”

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chapter two: the flight

Sure enough, a familiar head of dark hair was dipped down, eyes scanning the screen of his laptop. He still had stickers that she had bought for him on the device. There weren’t many seats open but there was one next to him with his duffle bag in it, the initials PJ visible from here.

Had he saved it for her? Surely not. They had assigned seats on the plane but that didn’t mean he would hold one for her in the seating area.

But her question was answered when his head lifted and his eyes scanned the airport. She almost jolted when they landed on her.